Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.